install grub on usb accessible device

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> I only need to make that disk bootable with grub. To do this, i can
> access r/w to the disk by usb. Done that, the disk is going to get back
> inside my laptop, finally bootable. Right now the bootloader is no
> longer on the disk, and so i cannot boot really anything. I can't use
> floppies nor cd to reinstall.

There should be a file named device.map on your /boot/grub directory.

Change a line that specifies device (hd0) to point to /dev/sda, and then
retry the installation of grub.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha